The Life of Samuel Johnson, Том 3J. B. Lyon, 1889 |
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... took Mr. Boswell's way of writing down what he heard , or , which is as good , preserved it in his memory ; for he has a wonderful memory . " With the leave , however , of this elegant historian , no man's memory can preserve facts or ...
... took Mr. Boswell's way of writing down what he heard , or , which is as good , preserved it in his memory ; for he has a wonderful memory . " With the leave , however , of this elegant historian , no man's memory can preserve facts or ...
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... took care to be always surrounded by women , who listened to him implicitly , and did not venture to controvert his opinions : and that his desire of distinction was so great , that he used to give large vails to Speaker Onslow's ...
... took care to be always surrounded by women , who listened to him implicitly , and did not venture to controvert his opinions : and that his desire of distinction was so great , that he used to give large vails to Speaker Onslow's ...
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... took a place in the coach , which was to set out for London on Monday the 22d of November . Sir John Dalrymple pressed him to come on the Saturday before , to his house at Cranston , which being twelve miles from Edinburgh , upon the ...
... took a place in the coach , which was to set out for London on Monday the 22d of November . Sir John Dalrymple pressed him to come on the Saturday before , to his house at Cranston , which being twelve miles from Edinburgh , upon the ...
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... took him up . He had , as one of his companions in it , as far as Newcastle , the worthy and ingenious Dr. Hope , botanical professor at Edinburgh . Both Dr. Johnson and he used to speak of their good fortune in thus accident- 1 Essex ...
... took him up . He had , as one of his companions in it , as far as Newcastle , the worthy and ingenious Dr. Hope , botanical professor at Edinburgh . Both Dr. Johnson and he used to speak of their good fortune in thus accident- 1 Essex ...
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... took the trouble publicly to disprove ; yet , like one of Pope's dunces , he persevered in " the lie o'erthrown . " As to the charge of defamation , there is an obvious and certain mode of refuting it . Any person who thinks it worth ...
... took the trouble publicly to disprove ; yet , like one of Pope's dunces , he persevered in " the lie o'erthrown . " As to the charge of defamation , there is an obvious and certain mode of refuting it . Any person who thinks it worth ...
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Страница 292 - ALMIGHTY God, who alone canst order the unruly wills and affections of sinful men ; Grant unto thy people, that they may love the thing which thou commandest, and desire that which thou dost promise ; that so, among the sundry and manifold changes of the world, our hearts may surely there be fixed, where true joys are to be found ; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Страница 129 - Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Страница 97 - There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
Страница 199 - Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn.
Страница 268 - And if Jack Wilkes should be there, what is that to me, Sir ? My dear friend, let us have no more of this. I am sorry to be angry with you ; but really it is treating me strangely to talk to me as if I could not meet any company whatever, occasionally.
Страница 269 - But he no doubt recollected his having rated me for supposing that he could be at all disconcerted by any company, and he, therefore, resolutely set himself to behave quite as an easy man of the world, who could adapt himself at once to the disposition and manners of those whom he might chance to meet. "The. cheering sound of "Dinner is upon the table," dissolved his reverie, and we all sat down without any symptom of ill humour.
Страница 343 - When Goldsmith was dying, Dr. Turton said to him, " Your pulse is in greater disorder than it should be, from the degree of fever which you have : is your mind at ease ?" Goldsmith answered it was not.
Страница 198 - The master of the house is anxious to entertain his guests ; the guests are anxious to be agreeable to him : and no man but a very impudent dog indeed can as freely command what is in another man's house as if it were his own. Whereas at a tavern there is a general freedom from anxiety. You are sure you are welcome : and the more noise you make, the more trouble you give, the more good things you call for, the welcomer you are.
Страница 164 - Endeavouring to make children prematurely wise is useless labour. Suppose they have more knowledge at five or six years old than other children, what use can be made of it? It will be lost before it is wanted, and the waste of so much time and labour of the teacher can never be repaid. Too much is expected from precocity, and too little performed. Miss was an instance of early cultivation, but in what did it terminate?
Страница 78 - Your rage I defy. Your abilities, since your Homer, are not so formidable; and what I hear of your morals inclines me to pay regard not to what you shall say, but to what you shall prove. You may print this if you will. SAM. JOHNSON.